On 02/01/2013 09:11 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:
I am working on an article about the war against the Comanche Indians in the pre-Civil War period. As you may know, Pekka Hamalainen's "Comanche Empire" argues that the hegemony of the Comanches in the lower plains was based on its immense "capital" in horses. What I am looking for are books/articles on the role of the horse in the rise of American capitalism. Contact me at [email protected] for leads.
"Following the war, Charles Goodnight became involved in the herding of feralTexas Longhorn <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_longhorn_%28cattle%29>cattle northward fromWest Texas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas>to railroads. This "making the gather" was a near state-wide round-up of cattle [and horses] that had roamed free during the four long years of war. In 1866, he andOliver Loving <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Loving> drove their first herd of cattle northward along what would become known as theGoodnight-Loving Trail <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodnight-Loving_Trail>.... The Goodnight-Loving trail extended from Belknap, Texas, to Fort Sumner, New Mexico."
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